 | Mark David Ledbetter - 379 strani
...surely break the covenant with God. It was he, after all, who explained God in government like this: The legitimate powers of government extend to such...injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say There are twenty gods, or no God. It neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket. Hamilton... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 strani
...Freedom. He defended his stance with the oft-quoted argument in the Notes on the State of Virginia: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such...injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. . .... | |
 | Tom Streeter - 2006 - 458 strani
...one of Jefferson's popular statements regarding the role of government and the freedom of religion: The legitimate powers of government extend to such...injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If... | |
 | George Ricker - 2006 - 179 strani
...ratification were an issue, spelled out his thinking on the subject quite clearly.5 He remarked famously, "The legitimate powers of government extend to such...injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." (Indeed,... | |
 | Gary Scott Smith - 2006 - 680 strani
..."religious slavery"? Rulers could have authority over such natural rights only if citizens acquiesced to them. "The rights of conscience we never submitted,...not submit. We are answerable for them to our God." Baptists and Presbyterians also opposed this bill. As noted in the previous chapter, this divisive... | |
 | Emily Griesinger, Mark A. Eaton - 2006 - 395 strani
...wrote Locke ("A Letter Concerning Toleration"). "The legitimate powers of government," added Jefferson, "extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are twenty Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 strani
...government consists in the art of being honest. A Summary of the Rights of British America, May 1774 The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. Notes on the State of Virginia, 17*2 To Thaddeus Kosciusko, Monticello, April 16, i81 i The only orthodox... | |
 | Elizabeth Price Foley - 2008 - 303 strani
...freedom of conscience on the basis that "[t]he legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If... | |
 | Paul R. Abramson - 2011 - 185 strani
...special protection from the tyranny of the majority. As Jefferson infamously stated many centuries ago: "The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could...injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."29 Polygamy,... | |
 | Alec G. Hargreaves, John Kelsay, Sumner B. Twiss - 2007 - 224 strani
...reiterated those sentiments elsewhere with characteristic eloquence: "Our rulers can have no authority over such natural rights, only as we have submitted...not submit. We are answerable for them to our God." Accordingly, the "legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.... | |
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. 
